Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 76 63
Rank change year-on-year -46 -13 -16
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,392 1,551 3,636
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.59% 3.71% 3.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 3.99% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 944 1,076 2,769
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,208 £43,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,453 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% +15.38% -16.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -6.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 65,992 38,867 81,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.24% 92.91% 85.83%
Number of salaries quoted 40,690 22,673 59,246
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.86%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 21 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -39 1,266 £77,500 +3.33% 514
London +4 685 £87,500 +2.94% 236
Work from Home -21 614 £70,000 -2.78% 329
UK excluding London -114 587 £67,500 -3.57% 346
North of England -38 271 £69,310 -3.72% 110
South East -112 126 £75,000 +11.11% 105
North West -38 123 £70,000 -3.45% 75
Yorkshire -40 102 £69,310 -3.72% 14
Midlands -65 57 £67,500 +3.85% 35
South West -93 56 £62,500 -8.79% 40
North East -7 46 £67,500 +28.57% 21
East of England -32 40 £61,300 +6.61% 22
West Midlands -44 35 £72,500 +3.57% 14
Scotland -75 31 £60,000 -20.00% 14
East Midlands -74 21 £66,000 +1.54% 21
Wales -32 9 £53,171 -20.64% 9
Northern Ireland -42 6 £62,500 +13.64% 14
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 29 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 18 (1.29%) Apache
2 18 (1.29%) Confluence
3 17 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (1.08%) JBoss
4 15 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 13 (0.93%) IIS
6 12 (0.86%) OpenStack
7 10 (0.72%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.65%) CMS
9 5 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.29%) Appian
10 4 (0.29%) Camunda
10 4 (0.29%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.29%) nginx
11 3 (0.22%) Liferay
11 3 (0.22%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.50%) Maya
4 6 (0.43%) PlantUML
5 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.14%) Endur
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.072%) Actimize
6 1 (0.072%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.072%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.072%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.072%) Quorum
6 1 (0.072%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.072%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.072%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 765 (54.96%) AWS
2 573 (41.16%) Azure
3 312 (22.41%) GCP
4 244 (17.53%) Serverless
5 161 (11.57%) SaaS
6 121 (8.69%) AWS Lambda
7 119 (8.55%) GitHub
8 112 (8.05%) Amazon S3
9 106 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
10 95 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
11 78 (5.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 75 (5.39%) Amazon SQS
13 69 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
14 58 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
15 55 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 47 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
16 47 (3.38%) OpenShift
17 44 (3.16%) Azure Service Bus
18 41 (2.95%) Datadog
19 40 (2.87%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.66%) Broadband
2 13 (0.93%) Network Security
3 12 (0.86%) HTTP
4 8 (0.57%) AMQP
4 8 (0.57%) DNS
5 7 (0.50%) Firewall
5 7 (0.50%) Internet
6 6 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (0.36%) DHCP
7 5 (0.36%) MQTT
8 4 (0.29%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.29%) LTE
8 4 (0.29%) SNMP
8 4 (0.29%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.29%) WAN
9 3 (0.22%) Modbus
9 3 (0.22%) Multicast
10 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
10 2 (0.14%) RFID
10 2 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (13.72%) NoSQL
2 172 (12.36%) PostgreSQL
3 124 (8.91%) MongoDB
4 107 (7.69%) SQL Server
5 71 (5.10%) MySQL
6 69 (4.96%) DynamoDB
7 62 (4.45%) Relational Database
8 48 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (2.80%) Redis
10 38 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
11 36 (2.59%) BigQuery
12 28 (2.01%) Big Data
13 22 (1.58%) RDBMS
14 21 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
15 15 (1.08%) Pinecone
16 14 (1.01%) Power BI
17 12 (0.86%) DB2
18 11 (0.79%) Data Lake
19 9 (0.65%) Tableau
20 8 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 186 (13.36%) Git
2 126 (9.05%) Jenkins
3 98 (7.04%) GitLab
4 57 (4.09%) TeamCity
5 49 (3.52%) JIRA
6 38 (2.73%) Cucumber
7 33 (2.37%) JUnit
8 32 (2.30%) Cypress.io
9 31 (2.23%) CircleCI
10 27 (1.94%) Selenium
11 20 (1.44%) Bitbucket
12 18 (1.29%) Maven
13 17 (1.22%) Mockito
14 14 (1.01%) Claude Code
14 14 (1.01%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.93%) Vite
16 9 (0.65%) JMeter
17 8 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
17 8 (0.57%) Postman
17 8 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 411 (29.53%) Finance
2 351 (25.22%) Social Skills
3 164 (11.78%) Banking
4 108 (7.76%) Public Sector
5 103 (7.40%) Law
6 89 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
7 82 (5.89%) Retail
8 75 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 54 (3.88%) Financial Institution
10 53 (3.81%) Telecoms
11 45 (3.23%) Back Office
12 26 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.36%) Billing
13 19 (1.36%) Legal
14 18 (1.29%) Advertising
15 15 (1.08%) Games
16 14 (1.01%) Marketing
17 13 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
18 11 (0.79%) Manufacturing
18 11 (0.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 472 (33.91%) Developer
2 367 (26.36%) Senior
3 286 (20.55%) Software Engineer
4 217 (15.59%) Architect
5 186 (13.36%) Lead
6 116 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 116 (8.33%) Senior Developer
7 108 (7.76%) Java Developer
8 98 (7.04%) Solutions Architect
9 97 (6.97%) Senior Software Engineer
10 91 (6.54%) Java Engineer
11 72 (5.17%) .NET Developer
12 60 (4.31%) Software Developer
13 53 (3.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 51 (3.66%) Lead Developer
15 46 (3.30%) Java Software Engineer
16 43 (3.09%) DevOps Engineer
16 43 (3.09%) Principal Engineer
17 41 (2.95%) C# Developer
18 40 (2.87%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 315 (22.63%) React
2 291 (20.91%) .NET
3 282 (20.26%) RESTful
4 220 (15.80%) Spring
5 215 (15.45%) Node.js
6 211 (15.16%) REST
7 194 (13.94%) Spring Boot
8 173 (12.43%) Kafka
9 109 (7.83%) AngularJS
10 93 (6.68%) gRPC
11 82 (5.89%) .NET Core
12 79 (5.68%) HTML
13 70 (5.03%) CSS
14 66 (4.74%) RabbitMQ
15 63 (4.53%) .NET Framework
16 59 (4.24%) Vue
17 58 (4.17%) ASP.NET
18 57 (4.09%) Middleware
19 54 (3.88%) OAuth
20 52 (3.74%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 412 (29.60%) Cloud Native
2 247 (17.74%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 90 (6.47%) Enterprise Software
5 60 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
6 59 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (3.23%) Over-the-Top Content
7 45 (3.23%) Video\Live Streaming
8 41 (2.95%) Data Structures
9 38 (2.73%) Algorithms
10 31 (2.23%) Distributed Architecture
11 27 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
12 25 (1.80%) Mobile App
13 24 (1.72%) Blockchain
13 24 (1.72%) Virtual Team
14 20 (1.44%) AI Agents
15 19 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
16 16 (1.15%) Management Information System
17 15 (1.08%) IoT
17 15 (1.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 67 (4.81%) Linux
2 32 (2.30%) Windows
3 16 (1.15%) Android
4 12 (0.86%) Unix
5 7 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.36%) CentOS
6 5 (0.36%) Debian
6 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.22%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.072%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.072%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 683 (49.07%) CI/CD
2 550 (39.51%) Agile
3 545 (39.15%) DevOps
4 533 (38.29%) Software Engineering
5 391 (28.09%) Containerisation
6 315 (22.63%) Full-Stack Development
7 296 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
8 295 (21.19%) Mentoring
9 286 (20.55%) Event-Driven
10 280 (20.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 271 (19.47%) Test Automation
12 251 (18.03%) AI
13 224 (16.09%) Infrastructure as Code
14 194 (13.94%) Computer Science
15 170 (12.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 165 (11.85%) Scrum
17 164 (11.78%) Clean Code
18 160 (11.49%) Roadmaps
19 159 (11.42%) Technical Leadership
20 153 (10.99%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 454 (32.61%) Java
2 388 (27.87%) Python
3 285 (20.47%) SQL
4 267 (19.18%) JavaScript
5 249 (17.89%) C#
6 222 (15.95%) TypeScript
7 136 (9.77%) Go
8 53 (3.81%) Scala
9 44 (3.16%) C++
10 43 (3.09%) PHP
11 35 (2.51%) Bash
12 34 (2.44%) C
13 31 (2.23%) Ruby
14 22 (1.58%) Kotlin
14 22 (1.58%) PL/SQL
15 17 (1.22%) PowerShell
15 17 (1.22%) Shell Script
16 13 (0.93%) Rust
17 10 (0.72%) Groovy
18 9 (0.65%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 200 (14.37%) Degree
2 131 (9.41%) Security Cleared
3 118 (8.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 88 (6.32%) SC Cleared
5 60 (4.31%) AWS Certification
6 37 (2.66%) Master's Degree
7 36 (2.59%) Azure Certification
8 29 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
9 25 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (1.44%) DV Cleared
11 17 (1.22%) CISSP
12 16 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
13 12 (0.86%) CISM
14 11 (0.79%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.57%) PhD
16 7 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
17 6 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
17 6 (0.43%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (6.47%) QA
2 31 (2.23%) GDPR
3 27 (1.94%) Accessibility
4 26 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.87%) PCI DSS
5 16 (1.15%) SOC 2
6 15 (1.08%) NIST
7 11 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (0.72%) NCSC
9 9 (0.65%) GRC
10 6 (0.43%) IFRS
11 5 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.29%) SLA
12 4 (0.29%) WCAG
13 3 (0.22%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.22%) SEPA
14 1 (0.072%) EMIR
14 1 (0.072%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 424 (30.46%) Docker
2 15 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.36%) Firmware
4 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.072%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.072%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 440 (31.61%) Kubernetes
2 261 (18.75%) Terraform
3 89 (6.39%) Grafana
4 79 (5.68%) Ansible
5 40 (2.87%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.44%) Kibana
7 19 (1.36%) Argo
8 11 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.65%) HP Fortify
10 7 (0.50%) Cilium
11 6 (0.43%) Puppet
12 4 (0.29%) Istio
12 4 (0.29%) Packer
12 4 (0.29%) Rancher
13 3 (0.22%) Nagios
14 2 (0.14%) MIIS
14 2 (0.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 123 (8.84%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.67%) Google
3 51 (3.66%) Oracle
4 45 (3.23%) Typelevel
5 20 (1.44%) OpenAI
6 19 (1.36%) IBM
7 16 (1.15%) Dynatrace
8 15 (1.08%) Red Hat
8 15 (1.08%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.08%) SAP
9 13 (0.93%) AppDynamics
10 12 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (0.72%) Cisco
12 9 (0.65%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.65%) Databricks
12 9 (0.65%) Software AG
12 9 (0.65%) Splunk
13 8 (0.57%) Adobe
13 8 (0.57%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.57%) Palo Alto